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East Fannin Elementary School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About East Fannin Elementary School
As an intimate elementary-level community in Morganton, Georgia, East Fannin Elementary School hosts 465 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Fannin County. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 23% below typical.
Fannin County runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,753 students. East Fannin Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, East Fannin Elementary School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Fannin County as a whole.
On the resource side, East Fannin Elementary School logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Fannin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of +12.1 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fannin County) reports that median household income runs about $57,073, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fannin County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,753 students), East Fannin Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Fannin County Middle School, roughly 3.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, East Fannin Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.
East Fannin Elementary School operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. East Fannin Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 25% since 2018, when it stood at 371 (now 465). Class-load math has widened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.
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